From Week 2 To Term 2

OK, so I have failed miserably in my attempt to update this blog weekly - I will spare you my justifications and just get on with it. Here are three pictures from one of our early field trips. On this assignment we were to point and shoot at what interested us without taking the time to compose our image in the viewfinder.

Photography School Week Two

Here I am at the end of week two and so far I am surviving. I think school is tougher than dealing with clients! Take for example the shoot I did at Vancouver International Airport last week. I had to submit three, and only three submissions - no opportunity for a second presentation either. In my case I over thought what to submit. I was shooting for the Photojournalism class so I decided to submit two images that 'said' Airport. I know they conveyed airport as a place but my instructor critiqued them as too contrived. Having seen other students submissions and hearing the comments I am proud of my peers, and I take nothing away from them, however I could have stood in much greater light had I chosen other images from my shoot. Alas there is no second chance. Had I been presenting to a client I could have come back with the more appropriate selection, but such is not the case in class, what I gave is what it is, no chance of redemption for that assignment. I guess this is why I am in school, to learn.

My YVR shoot has flown, so I will leave you with a few street shots I took this past week.


One of my classmates making pictures.



Whale Watching.




Freighter Watching from the Spanish Banks.